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Summary: This book has given me a chance...let it do the same for you
Review: From the moment I first picked it up, I knew this book would be different. I was not disappointed. For the first time in my life I was reading about myself, and how to combat the demons within. Will I overcome? This book has given me a chance, a chance that I never had before, despite numerous counsellors, sessions and books.One of the best things about it is that it also will give your family members some insight as to what is going on in your head, and hopefully some ideas on how to help you get better. Don't waste another moment... order it now. It WILL change your life.
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Summary: Overall, good
Review: Having experienced a seriously deficient relationship and not knowing where to turn or what to do this book, after having read "Facing the Fire" (John Lee), helped me identify the behaviors I had been subject to for over 8 years. I found the ideas offered to assist a person with BPD of little value as my situation has (or rather hers) has progressed to a state far beyond the ability to offer help and communicate rationally.
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Summary: ABUSED CONFUSED ANXIETY RIDDEN AND SELF-DESTRUCTIVE
Review: Other related books I strongly recommend for anyone seeking to find help with BPD related symptoms of loneliness and emptiness, mood disorders, any type of addiction, identity issues, self-esteem issues, reoccurring unresolved anger, troubling relationship and trust issues: Excellent compliments to this book are: The Angry Heart: Overcoming Borderline and Addictive Disorders by Joseph Santoro and Ronald Cohen; Emotional Blackmail: When People in Your Life Use Fear, Obligation and Guilt to Manipulate You by Susan Forward and Donna Frazier; The Narcissistic Family: Diagnosis and Treatment by Stephanie Donaldson-Pressman and Robert Pressman; Understanding the Borderline Mother: Helping Her Children Transcend the Intense, Unpredictable and Volatile Relationship by Christine Ann Lawson; Why Is It Always About You?: The Seven Deadly Sins of Narcissism by Sandy Hotchkiss and James Masterson; Living with the Passive-Aggressive Man by Scott Wetzler; Malignant Self Love: Narcissism Revisited by Sam Vaknin and Lidija Rangelovska (Editor); Children of the Self-Absorbed: A Grown-Up's Guide to Getting Over Narcissistic Parents by Nina Brown; Treating Attachment Disorders: From Theory to Therapy by Karl Heinz Brisch and Kenneth Kronenberg; Toxic Coworkers: How to Deal with Dysfunctional People on the Job by Alan Cavaiola and Neil Lavender. And if you want to pursue the subject even further, you may be interested in reading The Narcissistic / Borderline Couple: A Psychoanalytic Perspective On Marital Treatment; Parenting with Love and Logic: Teaching Children Responsibility by Jim Fay and Foster Cline.
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Summary: a great layman's guide for BPD-friends and -family
Review: I found this an extremely helpful and sophisticated basic guide. Many readers seem to feel it is too negative, but for someone who feels perplexed and hopeless about life with a "borderline", it offers the reassurance that what seems like pure craziness on the part of a loved one actually corresponds to defineable complex of traits and behaviors. Loving a borderline can be a very lonely and frustrating experience, and this book offers support, insight and qualified hope in simple language, and without the annoying dumbed-down tone of most self-help books. I admit to having read it around ten years ago, and I will explore other guides recommended by readers. On the other hand, I have noticed that Prozac, Paxil, etc. don't work as an all purpose panacea for everyone with BPD. Paxil may control one symptom (borderline rage) while not alleviating another (depression, sense of worthlessness). Even if this book doesn't help borderlines themselves, I believe it does help their intimates find ways to be more creative and patient supporters and to take conflicts less personally.
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Summary: Authors Published New Book
Review: Dr. Kreisman has just published a new book on BPD entitled SOMETIMES I ACT CRAZY. Reading both provides a fascinating comparison as to the advances that have been made in the past decade on treating this disorder.
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Summary: This book helped me
Review: I couldn't figure out why I was having such problems with my mother. She was always difficult to deal with, and was very mean to my sisters when I was growing up. I finally figured out that my mother is a borderline, and so am I! What a revelation that was. Now I have to figure out how to move out of my mother's home, and cut the apron strings!
Steve
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Summary: The title itself is educational
Review: When I took a grad class some years ago, the Professor used the title of this book to intrduce us to BPD...I have lived with one and have come in contact with many...the title and the decriptions within the book are definitely accurate. I like the simplicity of the book, although it does not deal indepth with treatment, it clearly identifies behavior. Some BPD's are relieved to find thier behaviors have a common name and some are discouraged by it...but most people who deal with the behavior of a loved one with BPD, who have spent years riding the roller coaster of emotions BPD's inflict upon you--are relieved to find they did not imagine things. BPD's make you feel as if YOU are the problem, simply because they have learned from their environments as children, that it was "safer for them to manipulate and 'control' the adults around them , than to trust them to 'do the driving' so to speak" (my quote of BPD)...
GOOD book, but I would not give as a present to a BPD sufferer, they are indivuals, some are ready to heal and some are not..they book would only anger them.
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Summary: I Loved This Book -- It's About Me!
Review: I read this book avidly, and it made me think of my own life. I've written about the subject of borderline personalities extensively and consider myself an authority. Why? Because I suffer from it. The way I deal with my disorder is to rant and rave about my ex-spouse-it's easier to accuse her of having a borderline personality than to deal with my own issues. I've been publishing a lot about the topic on my own website, though most people have told me that I have no evidence for my claims.
You see, I have been hurt. Badly hurt. I was abused as a young child, and it helped make me into the emotionally and physically abusive person that I am today. When I was married, I could use my spouse as my psychological screen, my punching bag. When she didn't want to play that role anymore, I lost out bigtime. Boy, I now wish I'd gone into therapy earlier. Are you intrigued? Visit me on the web under my name.
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Summary: Not Impressed
Review: This book is extremely basic. It adds no infomation whatsoever to what one can learn from a brief google search of the topic.
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